The cinema of Yakov Protazanov /
"Best known for Aelita (1924), the classic science-fiction film of the Soviet silent era, Yakov Protazanov directed over a hundred films in a career spanning three decades. Called "the Russian D.W. Griffith" in the 1910s for his formative role in the first movies in the last years of...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Global film directors.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18530971 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A proto- and protean filmmaker
- A mobile career
- The politics of literary adaptation
- Revolutionary(-era) traditionalism
- Abroad at home
- Making comedy serious
- The didactic voice from Tolstoy to Lenin.